dead cartridge? Darn the Luck ! ! !

You can measure a cartridge generator with volt meter to make sure

let right top bottom on the ortofon cartridges, re the pin locations, is not the same as US built and Japanese built cartridges.

It’s a real PITA some times, as we hook them up the same as other cartridges..and get what seems like a dead channel.

find a spec sheet for the om series and look at the pin out locations.

Or was it the color of the pins and their so called identification re the color? Yeah, I think that is the issue....

Basically, you might be using the two hots as a channel and then the other channel is using the two grounds. Your color identification of the terminals is correct, but....ortofon uses the colors differently.

nope. color and identification is fine. It is the orientation that is different. turned 90 degrees on the om series.

one channel is the the top two pins and the other channel is the two bottom pins. On the om series.

the 2m series is the same as the om series wiring, and only those two series are wired that way.

Which tells you a lot about the 2m series.

As a matter of fact, you can slip a 2m series out of it’s plastic case and slip it into a om series body. You can take a 2m black  cartridge body proper and put it in an om 5 plastic bit, and fit on a om 5-10-20-30-40 stylus. Not much point, though.

mine is color marked and I matched the config at the cart to the shell.You think I need to move wires to different pins then?